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The lone active region visible on the sun put on a fine display with its tangled magnetic field lines swaying and...
Two active regions with their intense magnetic fields produced towering arches and spiraling coils of solar loops...
Giant, bright coronal loops trace out the magnetic field lines above an active region from June 4-6, 2018. The...
The magnetic field lines between a pair of active regions formed a beautiful set of swaying arches rising up above...
Magnetic arcs of solar material spewing from our favorite sphere of hot plasma, the sun. Magnetic arcs of solar...
Strands of plasma at the sun edge shifted and twisted back and forth over a 22-hour period, May 2-3, 2017. In this...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2014. The flare erupted from a...
Several small sunspots appeared this week, giving NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory a chance to illustrate their...
Telescopes help distant objects appear bigger, but this is only one of their advantages. Telescopes can also collect...
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists use their computer models to generate a view of the sun's...
In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base,...
The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 24, 2014. NASA's Solar Dynamics...
This chart details Skylab's X-Ray Spectrographic Telescope, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed to...
This photograph details Skylab's X-Ray Spectrographic Telescope, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed...
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. ?This flare was...
These banana-shaped loops are part of a computer-generated snapshot of our sun's magnetic field. The solar...
The Sun already featured one good-sized coronal hole, when another larger coronal hole began to emerge and intensify...
This chart details Skylab's Dual X-Ray Telescopes, one of eight Apollo Telescope Mount facilities. It was designed...
This 1970 photograph shows Skylab's Dual X-Ray Telescopes, an Apollo Telescope Mount facility. It was designed to...
On Oct. 18, 2014, a sunspot rotated over the left side of the sun, and soon grew to be the largest active region...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, captured this solar image on March 16, 2015, which clearly shows two dark...
Active region AR 12192 on the sun erupted with a strong flare on Oct. 24, 2014, as seen in the bright light of this...
Explanation: In this picture, the Sun's surface is quite dark. A frame from a movie recorded on November 9th by the...